Washing-machine



NITED STATES TITUS D. GAIL, OF NEWPORT, ILLINOIS.

WASHING- MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 52,408, dated February6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IITUS I). GAIL, of Newport, in the county ot' Lakeand State of Illinois, have made new and useful Improvements inWashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operationof the same, suiiieient to enable one skilled in the art to which itappertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which are made part of this specification, and inwhich- Figure l is a plan or top view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section ofthe tub on the line y y, and elevation of the machinery inside. Fig. 3is a vertical central section on the line a' x. Fig. l.

My invention consists of a pair of corrugated cones adjustably attachedto a central rotary post and revolving upon a concave corrugated bedwithin the tub.

In the drawings, A is the tub, and B the circular disk, which lies uponthe bottom of the tub, but may be removed therefrom when the verticalcentral post, C, is lifted. The latter is stepped into a socket in thebottom of the tub, journaled in a cross-piece, D, and rotated by meansof the handle E.

The disk or false bottom B may be level, convex, or concave, and itssurface is provided with radial corrugations which increase in depthtoward the periphery, so as to correspond to those on the rotary cones,which revolve above and in contact with the disk, or rather, when inuse, upon the clothes which intervene between the cones and the disk,which, by preference, is attached to the bottom of the tub, but may bemade removable. These cones or frusta are journaled in the post at theapices, and at their bases are journaled in links F, which are pivotedto a radial and horizontal arm, G, projecting from the central post, C.

The vertical motion of the cones is permitted by thejournaling oftheshonldenpin a in the dovetailed slot of the post, for, as the enlargedhead of the pin occupies the recess behind theA plate which forms theface of the slot, it cannot be drawn out from thence except by liftingto such a height as to be above the plate at an enlargement of the slot,which is provided for the entry and withdrawal ofthe enlarged head ofthe pin in putting the machine together for work or taking it apart forcleanslllg- The outer ends or bases of the cones are journaled in thelinks F, which are loosely pivoted on the central post so as to permitthe free play up and down ofthe cones, according to the thickness of theclothes over which they are passing, the latter being exposed to theaction of the corrugated cones upon corrugated concave bed, as thecentral post is revolved to cause the rotation and revolution of thesaid cones.

Havingdescribed my invention, whatIclailn therein as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

rIhe rotating and revolving corrugated cones, journaled at their apieesbythe headed pins in receded slots in the post and at their bases inpivoted` links, as described, in combination with the corrugated bed,the whole being arranged and operated substantially as described andrepresented.

TITUS D. GAIL.

Witnesses:

OcTAvrUs KNIGHT, W. F. HALL.

